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Summer School in Biology and Health

THE re-organized Central Council for Health Education, which enjoys the support of the Ministry of Health and the Board of Education, together with the most important health and educational associations, is arranging a Summer School in Biology and Health to be held at the Chelsea Polytechnic, London, during August 4-14. The first three days will deal with “The Biological Basis of Education”, and various sessions will trace the life of a child from conception to adolescence. The lectures will cover heredity, early childhood, stages of physiological and psychological development, and questions of individual and social health. This course should be of value not only to all teachers and educational administrators, but also to youth leaders, play-centre and nursery-school workers, health visitors and school nurses, and, indeed, all who have to do with children and young people. The succeeding week will deal with “Biology in the School”, and is designed specially for teachers of biology and others interested in that subject. While the mornings will be devoted to 'text-book' biology, and the afternoons to experimental demonstrations and visits, the evening lectures will relate biology to its social setting.

Vacation School on Social Biology

A VACATION school on “Social Biology in Relation to Human Life and Culture” is to be held under the auspices of the British Social Hygiene Council, beginning on July 30 at Eton College. The school will last for a fortnight ; the cost will be £6 6s. a week inclusive. The programme will consist of morning instructional courses on social biology, its place in education and its bearing on current social problems. For these, Prof. A. E. Heath, professor of philosophy in University College, Swansea, Dr. Marjory Gibbons, Mrs. E. J. Hatfield, Prof. L. P. W. Renouf, professor of zoology in University College, Cork, Mr. R. Weatherall (of Eton College) and others are making themselves responsible. Still wider aspects of social biology will be dealt with in evening lectures and conferences, in which Prof. F. A. E. Crew, Mr. W. L. Sumner, and Father Leycester King are hoping to participate. In the first week the courses will be planned to appeal mainly to teachers of all kinds, not only to science teachers. In the second week they will relate to problems which concern not only educationists but also welfare workers, magistrates, labour managers and all others confronted with present-day social and administrative problems. Further information can be obtained from the British Social Hygiene Council, Tavistock House South, Tavistock Square, London, W.C.I.

Walter Gardiner, 1859—1941

Having had the unique privilege of working with Walter Gardiner on ‘The Continuity of Protoplasm’ for several years in his private laboratory in his garden at St Awdrey’s, Hills Road, Cambridge, I feel it a great honour to be asked to write a notice of his life and work for the Royal Society. Unfortunately, when I went up to Cambridge in 1894, hi the last year of Professor C. C. Babington’s life, Gardiner was not lecturing to the elementary students, but only to those taking advanced botany for the second part of the Tripos. By the time I was taking Part II (1897-1898) Gardiner had resigned his University Lectureship—he did this in 1897 soon after Marshall Ward was elected Professor of Botany at Cambridge—so, unfortunately, I never attended any of his brilliant lectures, over which he took infinite pains, as he did in all his work. I was also too young to hear his remarkable evening lecture at the British Association Meeting at Newcastle in 1889, or his equally striking afternoon lecture at the Royal Institution in 1888. These lectures, alas, were never published. Something of his outstanding ability as a lecturer I have gleaned from chance remarks in our talks in his laboratory and from one or two botanists still living, who attended them. This preface will explain why much that should have been included of the earlier years of a brilliant and outstanding personality cannot be adequately recorded, for very few of his contemporaries are now living and recollections have faded.

American Institute of Physics

HomeRadiologyVol. 35, No. 6 PreviousNext CommunicationsAmerican Institute of PhysicsPublished Online:Dec 1 1940https://doi.org/10.1148/35.6.751cMoreSectionsPDF ToolsImage ViewerAdd to favoritesCiteTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked In AbstractProgress and problems in one of the most rapidly moving and promising fields of modern science, nuclear physics, was discussed at a special conference held under the auspices of the American Institute of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in October.Nuclear physics is the investigation of physical phenomena which occur within the nucleus or core of atoms, the tiny building blocks of which all matter is composed. Scientists have discovered that many of these phenomena can be harnessed for man's use, and it is the various diverse practical applications of this branch of science to which the conference devoted most of its attention.Dr. Karl T. Compton, President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, addressed the conference: Dr. Paul E. Klopsteg, Chairman of the American Institute of Physics, responded. The technical session which followed was devoted to the measurement and production of radio-active and stable isotopes and of penetrating radiations. The chairman of this session was Dr. Edmund U. Condon, of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, and papers were presented by Dr. M. A. Tuve, Carnegie Institution of Washington; Dr. Harold C. Urey, Columbia University, and Dr. John G. Trump, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M. I. T.). Dr. Enrico Fermi, the distinguished physicist of Columbia University, and winner of the Nobel Prize for his achievements in nuclear disintegration, was also a speaker on recent advances in physics. Sessions covered the fields of chemistry, radiology, and biology, and there was an evening lecture on the biologic effects of radiation. Papers on radiology and biology were the subject of sessions, with a lecture on “The General Results of Biologic Studies with Tracer Isotopes.” Studies of plant metabolism with radio-active isotopes were considered.The committee in charge of the Conference included Dr. Robley D. Evans, of the Department of Physics at M. I. T., Chairman; Dr. Elmer Hutchisson, of the University of Pittsburgh, Secretary; Dr. Henry A. Barton, Director of the American Institute of Physics; Dr. Edward U. Condon, of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company; Dr. Lee A. DuBridge, University of Rochester, Dr. G. Failla, Memorial Hospital, New York City; Dr. Clark Goodman, Department of Physics, M. I. T.; Dr. Ernest O. Lawrence, the distinguished physicist of the University of California, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for the development of the cyclotron, and Dr. Harold C. Urey, of Columbia University, whose discovery of heavy water won for him the Nobel Prize.Among the distinguished scientists who were chairmen of the various technical sessions were: Dr. James B. Conant, President of Harvard University; Dr. Lyman J. Briggs, National Bureau of Standards; Dr. F. Seitz, University of Pennsylvania; Dr. S. C. Lind, University of Minnesota; Dr. C. S. Barrett, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh; Dr. A. C. Lane, Tufts College;Article HistoryPublished in print: Dec 1940 FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsRecommended Articles RSNA Education Exhibits RSNA Case Collection Vol. 35, No. 6 Metrics Altmetric Score PDF download

The Library World Volume 43 Issue 4

LIBRARIANS do not desire tribute because, in the clenched antagonisms of to‐day, they carry on their normal work, so far as that is possible. Happy are those who have been allowed to continue their whole‐time devotion to library service, because there has seldom if ever been so much opportunity for good work. In some areas it must be limited, because the dark hours are hours of perpetual air raids or warnings of them, and our people in the more exposed towns cannot be expected to attend evening lectures, talks or recitals. A certain amount of afternoon work is possible, if there is adequate shelter in or adjacent to libraries. The confinement to their homes of our readers affords opportunities to persuade them to read, if persuasion is necessary. First we can instil into folk the desirability of always carrying a book, so that when they are caught by a warning they have something with which to wile away the time in the shelter. Then, there appears a chance of drawing attention to the books which we ought to have read but have not, and our readers may be urged to make black‐out hours profitable by special Studies. Few recent publications are better designed for this than the twenty‐one “Suggestions” which have just come from Leeds. Each consists of a four‐page leaflet, three pages bearing carefully selected and annotated titles, and they are on the subjects that matter—Modern Poetry, Voyages, Modern Thought, Without Passport (travel in Continental Europe), Humour, Amateur Drama, Popular Science, Kitchen Ranging, and so on—the range is great; and we believe these are worthy of national circulation. Reverting to lectures, Bristol has arranged its usual excellent programmes for adults and children respectively.

Progress of Illumination

DR. H. W. MELVILLE prepared an evening lecture for the Dundee meeting of the British Association, under the title “New Lamps for Old” The natural illuminant, the sun, is considered first. We may regard the sun as a ‘black body’ with a surface temperature of about 6000° C. Being a black body, it emits light of all wave-lengths, but the wave-lengths in which we are particularly interested lie in the visible region from about 4000 A. to 7500 A., for it so happens that evolutionary processes have developed a human optical system which is most sensitive to such a band of wavelengths.

Durban Meeting of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science

THE thirtieth annual meeting of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science was held in Durban on July 4–9, under the presidency of Prof. P. J. du Toit. The meeting was very well attended and 117 papers were read. The South African medal and grant were presented to Prof. J. W. Bews and the first British Association medal to Dr. Nellie F. Paterson at the close of the presidential address. Popular evening lectures were given by General J. C. Smuts on “Climate and Man in South Africa” and by Prof. B. de St. J. van der Riet on “Essential Oils”. There was a reception by the mayor and councillors and numerous excursions to places of scientific interest in the neighbourhood. [The papers presented at the meeting are now available as vol. 29 of the South African Journal of Science (Johannesburg: South African Association for the Advancement of Science, 1932. 30s. net).]

Annual Symposium on Colloid Chemistry

THE tenth annual Symposium on Colloid Chemistry will be held in Ottawa, Canada, on June 16–18. About two hundred workers in this field of science are expected to attend the meeting, and Mr. Emil Hatschek, lecturer on colloids at the Sir John Cass Technical Institute in London, will be the principal guest and speaker. He will read a technical paper and will also give an evening lecture; the sessions will be held in the newly constructed National Research Laboratories. Papers will be presented on the colloid chemical aspects of such diverse subjects as: the constitution of rubber, by Thomas Midgley, of Columbus, Ohio; diphtheria toxins and antitoxins, by P. J. Moloney, of the Connaught Laboratories, Toronto; asphalts by Charles Mack, of the Imperial Oil Company at Sarnia; studies in cellulose, by O. Maass, of McGill University, Montreal; colloidal arsenic by E. F. Burton, of Toronto University; gelatin, by S. E. Sheppard, of the Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, N.Y.; resins, by C. H. Winning, of the University of Wisconsin, Madison; cane wax in raw and refined sugar, by C. F. Bardorf, of the St. Lawrence Sugar Refineries, Montreal.

South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies

THE thirty-seventh annual Congress of the South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies will be held in London, at the Civil Service Commission, Burlington Gardens, W.I, on June 1–4, under the presidency of Dr. R. E. Mortimer Wheeler. The presidential address, on “Field Archseology in Great Britain”, will be delivered in the evening of the first day of the Congress. The sections, their presidents, and the subjects of the presidential addresses are as follows: archæology, Dr. W. E. St. L. Finny, “Medieval Games and]Gaderings”; botany, Mr. J. Ramsbottom,“Fungi as Scavengers”; geology, Prof. H. L. Hawkins, “The Structure of the South-East of England”; zoology, Mr. Hugh Main, “The Camera as a Naturalist's Recorder”; regional survey, Mr. G. L. Pepler, “Town and Country Planning”. Evening lectures will be delivered by Sir Arthur Thomson, on “The Drama of Animal Life”, and by Capt. Guy Dollman, on “Great Game Animals of Africa”. There will be an exhibition of regional survey material under the supervision of Miss E. W. Spear; and a number of excursions of specialised interest, as well as others of more general appeal, have been arranged. The honorary general secretary of the Congress is Mr. E. A. Martin, 14 High View Close, Norwood, London, S.E.19.

York Meeting of the British Association

THE British Association, after celebrating its centenary in London last year, will return this year appropriately to its birthplace, York. The annual meeting will be held there on Aug. 31—Sept. 7, and the preliminary programme has just been issued. The reception room will be in the Exhibition Buildings. The inaugural meeting and evening lectures will be given in the adjoining exhibition hall, a structure which, when it served the same purpose for Ramsay, Huxley, and Spottis-woode at the jubilee meeting in 1881, was labelled as ‘temporary’, but through various vicissitudes has stood the test of time, and now has been amply restored since its service as a post-office sorting-shed.

Plans for the Annual Meeting of the College Art Association

AbstractTHE ANNUAL MEETING of the College Art Association will be held in New York on March 30, 31 and April 1. The day time lectures and talks in connection with this meeting will be given at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fifth Avenue and 82nd Street, New York City. Plans for the evening lectures are not yet complete.

Dr. J. M. Ellis McTaggart

THE news of the sudden death of Dr. McTaggart on -L January 18, at the early age of fifty-eight, came as a great shock to his numerous colleagues and friends both in Cambridge and throughout Great Britain. He had, indeed, resigned his lectureship in Trinity College, Cambridge, more than a year ago in order to devote more time to literary work; but he went on giving some of the courses of lectures he had been accustomed to give, and his interest in everything that pertained to the University continued to be as keen as ever. His Friday evening lectures, open to students of all schools, have been for many years past a Cambridge institution; and various stories are related of his acuteness, resource, and ready wit in endeavouring to initiate the profanum vulgus in the problems of metaphysics. In the affairs of his College and in those of the University he took a leading and conspicuous part, bringing to bear upon every issue a fearless independence of judgment, which won for him the respect and esteem even of those to whom he was most opposed in opinion. In politics he was strongly conservative, although here again he never allowed himself to be fettered by party ties but pursued a path distinctly his own.

James Dewar, 1842–1923: a Friday Evening Lecture to the Members of the Royal Institution, on January 18, 1924

James Dewar, 1842–1923: a Friday Evening Lecture to the Members of the Royal Institution, on January 18, 1924

Some considerations regarding microscopical technique

The Anatomical RecordVolume 14, Issue 5 p. 265-282 Article Some considerations regarding microscopical technique† C. E. McClung, C. E. McClung Zoological Laboratory of the University of PennsylvaniaSearch for more papers by this author C. E. McClung, C. E. McClung Zoological Laboratory of the University of PennsylvaniaSearch for more papers by this author First published: May 1918 https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.1090140502Citations: 5 † An evening lecture delivered at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, July 27, 1917. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume14, Issue5Special Issue: Includes Annual Meeting AbstractsMay 1918Pages 265-282 RelatedInformation

Specific Heats and the Periodic Law

AT his last Friday evening lecture at the Royal Institution Sir James Dewar announced his somewhat startling discovery that at temperatures of about 20° absolute the specific heats of the elements are periodic functions of the atomic weights, and are therefore not in accordance with Dulong and Petit's law (established at ordinary and higher temperatures). May I venture to point out that a simple consideration of the difference of conditions in the experiments of Sir James from those of Dulong and Petit may ultimately harmonise the two sets of results?

The Piltdown Skull

IN his evening lecture to the British Association at Birmingham on September 16, Dr. Smith Woodward took the opportunity of replying to Prof. Arthur Keith's recent criticisms on his reconstruction of the Piltdown skull. It will be remembered that Dr. Woodward regarded the mandible as essentially that of anape, and restored it with ape-like front teeth, while he determined the brain-capacity of the skull to approach closely the lowest human limit. Prof. Keith, on the other hand, modified the curves of the mandible to accommodate typically human teeth, and reconstructed the skull with a brain-capacity exceeding that of the average civilised European.

The Manufacture of Light

PROF. THOMPSON'S evening lecture delivered at the York meeting of the British Association in August last is here presented in an attractive form. Twenty-eight clearly reproduced illustrations assist greatly in a thorough comprehension of the discourse. After a brief description of primitive sources of light and a reference to the inventions of gas and electric lighting, the general question of incandescence is discussed. This is followed by an account of photometry and an explanation of the inequality in different directions of the light from various sources. After dealing with the sensitiveness of the eye to radiations of particular wave-lengths, the measurement of emission, and the temperature and quality of radiation, Prof. Thompson describes various incandescent gas-lights, new kinds of glow-lamps and arc-lamps, and concludes with a consideration of the cost of the manufacture of light. The little book should have a wide popularity.

THE THEORY OF NARCOSIS.

I esteem it a high honor as well as a great pleasure to address you on this occasion and to have been asked to open the first course of lectures of the Harvey Society. The establishment of these lectures is additional evidence, if such be required, of the great interest displayed by American physicians in theoretical conceptions and in scientific research, and, in addition, of an earnest effort to encourage and diffuse such knowledge. I look, however, on the invitation extended to me as evidence of your friendly and fraternal sentiments toward the whole body of German scientists, and I may be permitted on their behalf to offer you an expression of their cordial appreciation. Following the suggestion of your president, I have selected as a theme for this evening's lecture a subject which, for a long time, has repeatedly attracted and interested not only pharmacologists, but biologists as well,

La Tecnica delle Correnti Alternate

THE course of evening lectures read before a class of artisans is here given in book form. Except for an occasional algebraic expression, mathematics are rigidly excluded, and yet the author tackles the most complex phenomena of alternate currents, arid discusses the behaviour of synchronous, asynchronous and rotary-field motors, with their various starting devices; of rotary converters and their tendency to hunt; of alternators running in parallel, and of wave propagation in long lines. And he does this with so much success that the usual treatment on the basis of a sine wave-form compares unfavourably. A mathematical treatment of the subject is practicable only on the assumption of sine-waves, and the evil of this is that students are apt to forget that in practice the wave-form is rarely sinusoidal, and generally so far removed from it that the theoretical deductions are then valueless. To deal with alternate currents is far harder without than with the use of sine waves, and the author is to be congratulated on his success. The book, in fact, is not an elementary manual, but an up-to-date treatise, its language suited to the artisan and its substance to any student.

The British Association

GLASGOW MEETING, SEPTEMBER 11–18, 1901. IN the first article which appeared in NATURE on May 23, particulars were given regarding the local arrangements as to reception room, rooms for sectional meetings, and the halls in which the presidential and other evening scientific lectures were to be delivered. The Friday evening lecture is to be given by Prof. W. Ramsay, on inert constituents of the atmosphere, and the Monday evening lecture is to be given by Mr. Francis Darwin, on the movements of plants.